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Bhaskar Banerjee | Solicitor

I joined Hodge Jones and Allen in September 2014. I have a year and a half of experience in claimant based personal injury, working as a paralegal for Levenes Solicitors, a practice in Wood Green, London. I went on to spend almost a year as a Dispute Resolution paralegal at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, working on a range of contractual disputes and regulatory investigations.

Before beginning my professional legal career, I completed a six month research internship at an NGO called the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, an international organisation that monitors corporate complicity globally in human rights abuses and environmental issues, and volunteered with the National Council for Civil Liberties. I have also lived in the USA, where I volunteered for a family legal aid practice as an administrative intern.

Posts by Bhaskar Banerjee

Donald Trump’s executive orders banning immigration from seven Muslim majority countries and imposing an indefinite stay on refugees fleeing the humanitarian catastrophe in Syria has caused untold misery and legal uncertainty for tens of thousands.Mr August Flentje, lawyer for Trump’s justice department, stated that this exercise of executive power was ‘perfectly constitutional’, though the US courts halted the ban in its initial form.

The recent Prison Service Instruction (PSI) governing the care and management of transgender offenders (PSI 17/2016), provides some much-needed updates to the guidelines governing the treatment of transgender persons in custody.

The recent case of the mother of a former steelworker from Scunthorpe, who succumbed to mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos from washing her son’s dirty work clothes, highlights the dangers of indirect, ‘secondary’ exposure to the toxic dust.